Back in February, debuted Perplexity Computer. Like Claude Cowork, it’s a suite of AI agents that can autonomously complete tasks using the web, as well as files and apps on your PC. Since then, the platform has evolved to encompass a few different products, including Personal Computer for the Mac, and today Perplexity is announcing yet offshoot called Hybrid Compute. The new tools allows you to split a task between a frontier, cloud-based model like Opus 5 or GPT-5.6 Sol and a local LLM running on your computer — the idea being that the local model can handle any sensitive information so that it remains safe and secure on your machine. Perplexity suggests a few different use cases where Hybrid Compute would be a good fit.

Full report : Perplexity launches Hybrid Compute, which splits workloads between frontier cloud models like Opus 5 and local LLMs, for all users of its Mac app.